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My God, Are Illinois Teachers Wanting to See Naked Girls for $100?1 comment

brokeharvardgrad wrote 3 months ago: In Illinois, 5 teenagers were forced to undergo a strip search to try to find $100 that some student … more →

Tags: Chauvinism Alive Today, united states, Strip Search, school district, Supreme Court, Principal, Lawyer, Supreme Court of the United States, dan crozier

Massachusetts has turned Communistic: Forced Vaccinations With Jail Time for Violations1 comment

brokeharvardgrad wrote 3 months ago: Image via Wikipedia Oh Great!  Just as I was expounding the freedoms awarded citizens in America, Ma … more →

Tags: Medical Muck-ups

Yale University bows to Islamic Extremists' Threats of Violence

brokeharvardgrad wrote 3 months ago: Image by Getty Images via Daylife Yale University:  one would think of this a bastion of intellectua … more →

Tags: Business Fuck-ups, Islam, Freedom of Speech, Education, Colleges and Universities, united states, US, Islamic Extremists, Muslim Cartoons

Yet Another Adjunct Is Fired for the Truth: San Antonio College Punishes Adjunct Gerald J. Davey1 comment

brokeharvardgrad wrote 4 months ago: Inside Higher Ed has another piece about yet another adjunct who was fired, or just not offered anot … more →

SAT Test Score Gaps Continue Even As SAT Director Swears There Is No Bias2 comments

brokeharvardgrad wrote 4 months ago: I read a recent US News article that spoke about how the SAT test scores give valuable data to colle … more →

Tags: Asshole Business Awards

Ending Homework? Many Parents Disagree with Summer Homework: The Homework Debate1 comment

brokeharvardgrad wrote 4 months ago: Image by Getty Images via Daylife I’m a teacher, with a background in neuropsyche, so I should … more →

Tags: Education, school district, High School, English language, Higher Education, Homework, School, teacher, K through 12

Schools Can't Jam Cell Phone Signals: It's Illegal

brokeharvardgrad wrote 5 months ago: Image by In Veritas Lux via Flickr Some schools have talked about installing systems that jam cell p … more →

Tags: 1, who the hell put these people in charge anyway, Education, Public School, science and technology, Mobile Phone, cellphone, Iowa, Ansgar

Training vs. Educating and the Plight of Obama's Education Plans1 comment

brokeharvardgrad wrote 5 months ago: Image by Gabriel Liendo via Flickr Inside Higher Ed, which I routinely like to shred with my morning … more →

Tags: Student Loans, Higher Education, Obama's Mistakes, Education, Colleges and Universities, Inside Higher Ed, united states, Community College, private school

The Professionalism of Adjuncts: Well-Read, Well-Connected, and On-line

brokeharvardgrad wrote 5 months ago: Image via Wikipedia I was musing this Monday morning, as I often do as opposed to writing, that the … more →

Tags: adjunct pay is $3.50/hour, adjuncts part-time, Adjuncts, Education, Employment, technology, Arts, firing adjuncts, labor union sides with adjunct

English Profs Have Office Phone Cords Cut as Florida State Univ's Budget Crisis Amps Up--Just like adjuncts1 comment

brokeharvardgrad wrote 5 months ago: Image via Wikipedia In a move seen as desperate and somewhat shaky, Florida State University is cutt … more →

Tags: Higher Education, Professor, Education, Arts, English language, Florida State University, Mobile Phone, Writers Resources, Florida State

Fired Adjunct Given Job Back: More Problems with Colleges

brokeharvardgrad wrote 5 months ago: Image by djwudi via Flickr In Washington State, one adjunct found restitution in the courts after sh … more →

Tags: Higher Education, Education, Colleges and Universities, united states, Bowdoin College, Washington, Community College, two-year colleges, firing adjuncts

Commenting on the Adjunct Plight: Why do the readers of Inside Higher Ed miss the point?1 comment

brokeharvardgrad wrote 5 months ago: There is an article published with Inside Higher Ed called Add-junk or Instructor, written by a memb … more →

Tags: Higher Education, Professor, tenure, Education, Harvard University, Harry Potter, living wage, wage, Job Security

Faculty/ Adjunct Firing: Stillman College, Edison Community College, & Bowdoin College seem to try to fire profs to keep them from speaking4 comments

brokeharvardgrad wrote 6 months ago: Even though I seem to take a lot of my comments from Inside Higher Ed, they have stopped publishing … more →

Tags: Asshole Business Awards, adjunct firing, Bowdoin College, California, censuring adjuncts, censuring faculty, Clark Atlanta University, Colleges and Universities, Community College

Add Eddison Community College in Ohio to the list of openly censoring professors by firing them--as deemed necessary by President Yowell3 comments

brokeharvardgrad wrote 6 months ago: Remember when I wrote about Stillman College and some of the others who are focusing on quelling fre … more →

Tags: Higher Education, Asshole Business Awards, adjunct pay is $3.50/hour, Professor, Education, Colleges and Universities, united states, Ohio, Community College

Slumdog Millionaire - Trailer: Educating the Minority Is Never As Simple as it seems1 comment

brokeharvardgrad wrote 7 months ago: Image by AFP/Getty Images via Daylife My other post with the video trailer says that the video is no … more →

Tags: India, Slumdog Millionaire, child actor, Danny Boyle, mumbai, trainspotting, slum, jamal malik, 28 Days Later

Another School Principal--Craig Jessop--is being asked to apologize after telling a student that his kilt looked like "cross-dressing"

brokeharvardgrad wrote 7 months ago: Image via Wikipedia Here we go again with these school principals.  Man, do they only hire the stupi … more →

Tags: Chauvinism Alive Today, Kerry Wilson, kerry wilson abuses minors, kilt, Craig Jessop, Utah, American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights, Yahoo

An Easy 1,2,3 Guide to Creating a Global Pandemic with Factory Farming Methods

brokeharvardgrad wrote 8 months ago: Image via Wikipedia Nothing like starting this school week off with pandemonium and good healthy dos … more →

Tags: Business Fuck-ups, Medical Muck-ups, too much money that no one wants to spend, Agriculture, health, American Public Health Association, swine influenza, factory farms, Influenza

Math scores for 17 year olds remain constant over the past almost 40 years

brokeharvardgrad wrote 8 months ago: Image via Wikipedia In yet another area of our education system here in the US, we have found that m … more →

Tags: Higher Education, Education, united states, school district, Chicago, standardized test, Math, Mathematics Education, High School

Proof that Arne Duncan's approach is wrong: Chicago High School students don't go to top college's despite Arne's push for longer school years

brokeharvardgrad wrote 8 months ago: Image by Getty Images via Daylife Proof that Arne Duncan doesn’t know what he’s talking … more →

Tags: who the hell put these people in charge anyway, Education, Public School, arne duncan, chicago public school, school district, Harvard University, Chicago, Obama Administration


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